Deep Space Climate Observatory: The DSCOVR mission

Author

Burt, Joe ; Smith, Bob

Author_Institution

Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

3-10 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

13

Abstract

In 1998, then-Vice President Al Gore proposed a mission to the Earth-Sun first Lagrange point (L1) to observe the Earth as a planet. This mission was named Triana, after the lookout on Christopher Columbus´s fleet who is reputedly the first of the European explorers to see the new world. Triana mission development proceeded for 21 months and cost an estimated $249M (in FY07$) before it was de-manifested from the Space Shuttle. The spacecraft has been in a state of “Stable Suspension” since November 2001. After the mission was placed into suspension, it was renamed the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). This paper will cover an overview of the original mission and highlights of refurbishing this mission to launch 16 years after it started, plus an update on its currently planned mission architecture.

Keywords

climatology; remote sensing; space vehicles; AD 1998; AD 2001 11; DSCOVR mission; Deep Space Climate Observatory; Earth-Sun first Lagrange point; Space Shuttle; Stable Suspension; Triana mission; deep space climate observatory; spacecraft; Instruments; Observatories; Software; Space vehicles; Testing; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0556-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2012.6187025

Filename

6187025